It was the Cikta shoe factory that launched the rapid development of Martfű and made it become an incorporated town. The factory was an affiliated firm of the Bata company of Érsekújvár. After the nationalization of 1949, the factory kept on operating under the name: Tisza Shoe Factory. Photo of Valentina Tereshkova (Russian cosmonaut) and his husband. Labourers of the shoe factory chose her as a role model and formed a brigade on 16 April, 1965.